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Basic Grammer Flashcards

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What is a Noun?

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A noun is a physical object or an abstract idea and can include a person, animal, place, or thing.

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What is the Noun in the following sentence?

The car is red.

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Car.

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What is the Noun in the following sentence?

He opened his book.

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Book.

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What is the Noun in the following sentence?

The dig jumped onto the bed.

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Dog.

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What is a Pronoun?

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A pronoun replaces a noun or another pronoun in a sentence and can be used instead of a noun to refer to the noun.

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What is the Pronoun in the following sentence?

Jack climbed the tree but he fell off it.

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He.

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The cat lives in my house. It is a tabby.

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It.

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What is a Article?

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An article is a type of determiner that comes before a noun.

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What is an example of a article.

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The and A.

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What is a subject

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A subject is the part of the sentence that tells you what the sentence is about. It is the who or what that does the action.

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What is the subject in the following sentence?

Tommy jumped off the bed.

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Tommy.

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What is the subject in the following sentence?

Does Jennifer love him?

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Jennifer.

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What is a verb?

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A verb gives actions, events or states of being to the subject or noun.

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What is the Verb in the following sentence?

Michelle walked into the theatre.

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Walked.

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What is the Verb in the following sentence?

The car jumped off the ledge.

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Jumped.

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What is an adjective?

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An adjective is a word that is used to describe, identify, or quantify a subject and modifies the noun or pronoun.

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What is the adjective in the following sentence?

The big bowl is full of bread.

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Big.

18
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What is the adjective in the following sentence?

The red brick fell off the table.

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Red.

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What is an Object?

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An object is that which the subject is acting upon.

20
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What is the object in the following sentence?

Athena bought a movie.

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Movie.

21
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What is the object in the following sentence?

Henry grew a beard.

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Beard.

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David flunked the test.

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Test.

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What is a direct object?

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A direct object is a noun phrase that denotes a person or thing as the recipient of the action of a transitive verb.

Subject + Verb = direct object.

24
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What is the direct object in the following sentence?

John ate the bread.

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Bread.

25
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What is the direct object in the following sentence?

William pulled the book out of the bag.

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Book.

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What is the direct object in the following sentence?

Mary tried marshmallows for the first time.

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Marshmallows.

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